Letting Go: Philip Roth

Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother`s recent death, and thus freed from old attachments, is hungrily seeking new ones. He`s drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate in literature, and to Libby - Paul`s moody, Catholic-turned-Jewish wife. Gabe wonders: how to reconcile the ordered `world of feeling` found in books with the anarchy of life, responsible adulthood, and his own love affairs? When Gabe meets Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, she poses the greatest challenge that he, and his moral enthusiasm, will face.